Re: [Avid-L2] list of Avid stuff you miss in FCP?

On Jun 5, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Shirley Gutierrez wrote:

> To your list I would add:
>
> 1) The Avid trim tools, including the four frame display in slip/
> slide, JKL slip/slid, trimming on the fly, isolating sides easily
> with a key command (i.e., playing up the cut and stopping, or
> playing from the cut forward), being able to SEE when you trim shots
> on different tracks (imagine that!)
> 2) Workspaces!

Check. FCP has workspace layouts that can be keyboard assigned. It
doesn't have users though.

> 3) Phantom marks, but also the ability just to align to the fourth
> mark of a three mark edit by using a "go to in/out" key, even when
> phantom marks are not enabled, as in MC
> 4) Avid's monitoring flexibility. Yes, I know you can turn of
> playback for individual clips in FCP, but this is pain in the ass.
> And what about soloing?

Soloing has been supported in FCP since at least version 4.

> 5) Selective sync locking of tracks, without constantly having to
> work around this unbelievably stupid, Draconinan, PITA global sync
> lock that FCP stuffs down your gagging throat whether you like it or
> not.
> 7) Track auto patching that actually works.
> 8) Locators that actually work, including MC's powerful locator
> window. The only locators you can actually see in FCP without double
> clicking to open up segments are timeline locators, but they don't
> stay in sync, so they're absolutely useless. I've heard this has
> changed in 7, but come on, why did it take ten years?

Because software takes work and changes are frequently very difficult.
Usually way more so than non-programmers ever imagine.

> 10) One version of any given clip extant in the NLE. Let's say I
> have a clip which I've edited from in a few places, and later when I
> have time, I go back and place a bunch of markers. When I match back
> to that clip from one of the early, pre-markers timeline instances
> of that clip, it takes me back to some forever young version of that
> media that doesn't show all the markers I have since painstakingly
> added.

Largely depends on what you match back to FCP 7 got additional features.
>
> I'm sure there's more, but that's all I can think of right now. BTW,
> this is cathartic of course (a good FCP rant always is), but what's
> the use? Will anyone at Apple ever see our comments? And do they
> even care? Most of their user base is kids who don't have any basis
> of comparison. Why should they care about what a 30 year veteran
> thinks?

There's zero value making FCP a clone of MC (and vice versa) as there
is already MC and FCP, so that's why you're not getting heard :)

Philip

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